Process Development Sr Associate
About The Position
Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Microbiology or related field and completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, thesis, or one year of experience in the following:
- Cell culture principles, cell metabolism profiles, protein chromatography, filtration and UF/DF operations to perform small scale bioprocess experiments that encompass both upstream (cell culture) and downstream (purification) operations;
- Experience with mammalian cell culture to maintain and scale up cell culture in shake flasks, culture bags and bench top bioreactors;
- Experience with purification operations to run bench-top chromatography columns to generate purified antibody product;
- Identify and solve problems by applying scientific and engineering principles;
- Design of experiments and statistical analysis of data and programming in JMP, R, or Python environments;
- Experience with automation efforts to enable high throughput technologies for accelerated process development
Responsibilities
- Support the development, characterization and scale up of cell culture and protein purification operations to enable commercial manufacturing advancement by conducting experiments, analyzing data, and documenting results.
- Work closely with senior scientists and engineers to implement process improvements.
- Support development of early phase cell culture, recovery and purification processes for Amgen’s large molecule expansion through production bioreactor, harvest, clarification, chromatography, and/or filtration technologies as well as completing virus clearance studies.
- Identify, develop and implement solutions to practical problems through application of fundamental scientific and engineering principles.
Benefits
- stock
- retirement
- medical
- life and disability insurance
- eligibility for an annual bonus
- Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
- group medical, dental and vision coverage
- flexible spending accounts
- A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans
- Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
